Michel Ciment

Michel Ciment

5/26/1938 – 11/13/2023Paris, France

Michel Ciment (May 26, 1938 - November 13, 2023) was a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif. Ciment was a Chevalier of the Order of Merit, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, and the former president of FIPRESCI. Ciment participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed his ten favorite films as follows: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Earrings of Madame de..., Fellini's Casanova, Persona, Providence, The Rules of the Game, Salvatore Giuliano, Sansho the Bailiff, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and Trouble in Paradise. Source: Article "Michel Ciment" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography (31 titles)

A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard6.0Movie

A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard

Self · 2025

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France8.5Movie

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic · 2024

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open7.8Movie

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open

Self (interview) · 2023

Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait PaysageMovie

Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage

2022

Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odysseyShow

Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey

self · 2022

Kubrick by Kubrick7.5Movie

Kubrick by Kubrick

Self (archive footage) · 2020

An American Named Kazan6.0Movie

An American Named Kazan

Self · 2019

About The Salesman4.2Movie

About The Salesman

2018

Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'Movie

Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'

Self · 2017

7.0Movie

Le Prédateur et la proie

Himself · 2017

John Boorman : Leçon de cinémaMovie

John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma

Self - Host · 2017

The Man Who Killed John Wayne7.5Movie

The Man Who Killed John Wayne

Self · 2017

Movie

M présenté par Michel Ciment

2016

Seduced and Abandoned6.2Movie

Seduced and Abandoned

Self · 2013

Movie

Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies

Michel Ciment · 2010

RKO, A Story made in HollywoodMovie

RKO, A Story made in Hollywood

Himself · 2010

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff6.6Movie

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Self (archive footage) · 2010

Movie

Joseph Losey and the Criminal

2008

Critic7.9Movie

Critic

Self · 2008

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth9.0Movie

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

Self · 2004

Leçon de Cinéma7.0Show

Leçon de Cinéma

Self - Host · 2004

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living7.0Movie

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living

Self · 2003

Stanley and Us6.3Movie

Stanley and Us

Self · 1999

All About Mankiewicz7.0Movie

All About Mankiewicz

Self · 1983

Elia Kazan: An Outsider6.8Movie

Elia Kazan: An Outsider

Self - Host · 1982

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder6.9Movie

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

Self / Interviewer · 1982

Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of SakeMovie

Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake

Self · 1978

Ciné regardsShow

Ciné regards

Self · 1978

Apostrophes8.5Show

Apostrophes

Self · 1975

Spécial cinéma9.5Show

Spécial cinéma

Self · 1974